Article Submission
Author Guidelines AWCI Journal
The following guidelines are approved by the editorial board and shall be followed for contribution in AWCI Journal. The guidelines are in conformance with the HEC policy on the subject.
Submission:
- Drafts and final document should be submitted electronically.
- Drafts should be submitted in Microsoft Word format
Author must provide:
- Contact details
- Area or field of focus
- Abstract of minimum 150 words with Keywords
- Methodology of article, if/when and where applicable
Length and Formatting of Article:
- 5000 to 8000 words excluding bibliograpghy
- Times New Roman font
- 12 font size
- Justified text
Certification:
Author must certify that the manuscript has not been:
- Plagiarized
- Submitted for review in any other publication
- In accordance with the guidelines set by the Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE)
Falsification or fabrication of data, plagiarism and misappropriation of work are unacceptable and will lead to an immediate rejection of the submitted article.
Copyright:
- All rights reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without the prior permission of the managing editor. Submission of an article will be taken to imply that it has not been previously published and that it is not on offer to any other publisher. The responsibility of the opinions expressed lie with their authors.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest:
- The potential and relevant competing financial, personal, social or other interest of all author(s) that might be affected by publication of the results contained in the manuscript must be conveyed to the managing editor.
- The author(s) should disclose any potential conflict of interest at the earliest possible stage, including but not limited to employment, consultancies, honoraria, patent applications/registrations, grants or other funding.
- All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed alongside a brief overview of the role played, if any by the responses during various stages of the research.
Manuscript Acceptance and Rejection :
- All submissions to the journal are initially reviewed by the editorial team. Manuscripts may be rejected without peer review at this stage if it is felt that they are unlikely to pass the peer review process or are not within the journal’s scope.
- Articles will then be reviewed and must be approved by a minimum of two independent anonymous reviewers before publication in the journal as per HEC guidelines. The reviewers have the right to reject or not consider work on the basis of content, research methodology, or irrelevance to the journal and can also suggest changes to the author’s work.
- The response to the work may take time and therefore the status of the article can be shared with authors only after the completion of the review process.
- Once the review process has been completed, the author will be informed about the status of the manuscript which could either be an acceptance, rejection or revisions. In the case of rejection, the author(s) reserves the right to publish the article elsewhere.
- In case of revisions, the author(s) must provide an exposition of all corrections made in the manuscript and the revised manuscript should, then, go through the process of affirmation of revisions and be accepted or rejected accordingly.
- In case of dissatisfaction over the decision of rejection, the author can appeal the decision to the Patron i.e. President AWCI by contacting the Managing Editor.
Publication Fee Policy :
The journal does not charge a publication fee or any other charges from the authors.